Performance Management Updates

Technical issues with Saving: Several people have reported having technical problems saving their performance management documents.  To help avoid this, do not run multiple, independent PeopleSoft sessions within your browser.  If you need to open another document (e.g., last year’s review) while writing your evaluation, select the “new window” link in the upper right hand corner of your screen.  Otherwise, PeopleSoft may not properly save your information.

Upward Feedback: If you have been invited to provide upward feedback, but have noticed that the date for completion has passed, go ahead and attempt to complete your feedback anyway.  As long as your supervisor’s leader has not finished her/his evaluation, you can still provide your feedback.  Please try it and see if it works.  Your feedback is important!

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Performance Management Class for Managers

For managers interested in enhancing their performance management skills, Learning and Organizational Development is offering a new, advanced class. Performance Management: Elevating Individual and Team Performance, is an advanced performance management class which provides additional strategies and tools to develop and enhance leadership skills.  Leaders will:

• Understand how to further develop employees by observing at a deeper level
• Learn how to actively engage in dialogue with employees and provide greater feedback by using the STAR and STAR-AR strategies
• Learn how to set appropriate and SMART goals for employees and the process on how to add these goals to the PeopleSoft tool
• Share different ideas on how to provide recognition and motivation through the MAP process (mastery, autonomy, and purpose).      

The class will be held on August 31, 2015 from 1:00-5:00 pm in the 1599 Bldg. Rm. 1.432. Register through ELMS.

Diversity and Inclusion Opportunity
The Center for Diversity and Inclusion is seeking members for its Advisory Council (CDIAC). The CDIAC will play a critical role in the development of the Center for Diversity and Inclusion as a new unit within Emory University’s Division of Campus Life. The Council is seeking approximately ten additional FACULTY, STAFF, and ALUMNI to serve a two-year term from 2015-2017. New members will join the current group of undergraduate students, graduate/professional students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Read more.

Wellness Webinars
Don’t have time to attend an in-person workshop or presentation?  FSAP provides monthly webinars on a variety of nutrition and physical activity topics that you can tune into from the comfort of your own workstation.  Learn great tips and information to help you make healthy changes in your lifestyle. 

Registration is now open for the following topics:

Staying Motivated Along Your Fitness Journey

• Tuesday, August 11: 12:00-12:30 pm
• Tuesday, August 18: 12:00-12:30 pm

Table for One?  (Food Planning & Meal Prep for Singles)

• Wednesday, September 16: 10:00-10:30 am
• Tuesday, September 22: 12:30-1:00 pm

TIPS: Healthy Start to a New School Year! 
The start of a new school year can be a difficult and stressful time, not only for children as they return to school, but also for the parents of school-aged children. With a little preparation and a positive mindset, this transition can be made easier (and healthier!) for the entire family. Read article in All About Health.

Anger/Conflict Management Skills Group
This group will meet Tuesdays, September 1 – October 27, 2015 (8 sessions, with no session on September 29), from  12 pm – 1 pm at the FSAP Main Office - Conference Room, 1762 Clifton Rd, Suite 1100. To register, prospective participants must contact FSAP at 404-727-4328 no later than August 24 to schedule a pre-screening appointment. Please note that space is limited. Learn more.

Caregiver/Care Partner Role in Mental Illness
Are you struggling to find balance in taking care of an adult family member with mental illness?  Are resources difficult to find?  Do you feel you have no one to talk with who understands?  This workshop will offer useful strategies for finding support for yourself and your loved one.  Learn skills related to managing crises and communicating effectively, as well as self-care tips and resources for peer support, including online and in-person resources.  There will be an opportunity to ask questions in a non-judgmental and safe space.  August 20, 2015, 12 pm - 1:30 pm, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Rm 201. Register for this workshop.